Mark Sweney and Jason Deans Monday 24 October 2011Controversial film that featured graphic footage of alleged war crimes did not breach broadcasting code, rules regulator
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: Ofcom received 118 complaints. Photograph: Channel 4
Channel 4's controversial documentary Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, which featured graphic footage of alleged war crimes, has been cleared of breaching the broadcasting code.
Ofcom said images featured in the documentary, broadcast in June, "whilst brutal and shocking", did not exceed what the Channel 4 audience would have expected, given the pre-transmission warning about the nature of the content and the programme's scheduling at 11.05pm, well after the 9pm watershed.
